Young man posted Metallica song on Facebook before taking life

When we learned the name of the young man who jumped to his death in Palos Verdes Estates yesterday, I quickly found a Facebook site that I believed to belong to him.
It was linked to his father's Facebook page, and we were pretty sure it belonged to John Albrigo.

What really drew my attention was Albrigo's last status update at 8:53 p.m. Wednesday.
It was a video of Metallica's song, "The Day That Never Comes," the lead single off the band's album "Death Magnetic."

Although the video shows a desert war scene where two Marines are hit with an explosion, band drummer Lars Ulrich told MTV that the lyrics were related to a father-son relationship.

"It's a story about human beings who don't know each other, in a particularly tense situation," Ulrich told MTV. "It could be a contemporary war setting, but it's really about forgiveness and redemption and understanding what goes on in people's minds."

A counselor who came upon Abrigo and talked to him for two hours before he jumped told the Daily Breeze that he spoke about some issues with his father.

We did not use the information in our story today. Although we were pretty sure the Facebook page belonged to Albrigo, we weren't certain. But today, a Facebook site started in his memory has the same profile photograph as his site.

While we don't know why Albrigo posted the Metallica video, here are the lyrics of "The Day That Never Comes":

Born to push you around,
Better just stay down
You pull away
He hits the flesh
You hit the ground
Mouth so full of lies
Tend to block your eyes
Just keep them closed
Keep praying
Just keep waiting

Waited for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel the warmth
but the sunshine never comes
No the sunshine never comes

Push across that line
Just stay down this time
Hide in your cell
Crawl in your shell
You'll have your time
God'll make them pay
Take it back one day
I'll end this day
I'll splatter color on this gray

Waited for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel the warmth
but the sunshine never comes

Love is a four letter word
And never spoken here
Love is a four letter word
Here in this prison
I suffer this no longer
I put it into
This I swear!
This I swear!
The sun will shine
This I swear!
This I swear!
This I swear!